【正文】 hard that he nearl y f el l int o the wat er . I tur ned t o l ook at t he chi ldren, but t her e wer en39。Pi lat us Por t er 39。t axi39。 No Par ki ng39。t i t upsi de down ?39。 she sai d, 39。 It 39。s a new one. Do you li ke i t ?39。 I answer ed. 39。 I 39。 What are you doi ng ?39。about39。about 39。 he sai d. I wonder. I n England, each man speaks a dif f er ent l anguage. The Engli sh underst and each other, but I don39。You39。I am a for ei gner ,39。but ver y clearl y as wel . The por ter, however , coul d not understand me。 I r epeated my questi on several ti mes and at l ast he under st ood. He answered m e, but he spoke neit her slowl y nor cl ear ly. 39。 I sai d. Then he spoke sl owly, but I could not under stand him. My teacher never spoke Engl ish l ike t hat ! The por ter and I looked at each other and smi led. Then he said somet hi ng and I under st ood it . 39。l l soon learn Engl ish!39。t understand them ! Do t hey speak Engl ish ? l esson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an ar t st udent and I paint a l ot of pi ct ures. Many people pr etend that they under stand modern ar t. They always tel l you what a pict ure i s 39。. Of cour se, m any pi ct ures arc not 39。 anyt hi ng. They ar e just pr et y pat ter ns. We li ke them i n t he same way that we li ke prett y curt ai n mat er ial . I t hink t hat young chi ldr en of ten appreciate moder n pict ur es bet ter t han anyone el se. They not i ce m ore. My si st er i s only seven, but she always t el ls m e whether my pict ur es are good or not . She came into my r oom yest erday. 39。 she asked. 39。m hanging t his pi ct ure on t he wal ,39。I t39。 She l ooked at it cri ti cal ly f or a moment. 39。s al r ight, 39。but i sn39。 I l ooked at it agai n. She was ri ght ! It was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late in t he aft er noon, the boys put up their t ent i n the m iddle of a f ield. As soon as thi s was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They were al l hungr y and the f ood smel t good. Af ter a wonder ful meal, t hey t old st or ies and sang songs by the camp f ir e. But some t ime later it began to r ain. The boys f elt t ir ed so t hey pet out the f ir e and cr ept i nto t heir tent. Their sleepingbags were war m and f ort abl e, so t hey al l sl ept soundl y. I n t he middl e of t he night, t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The tent was f ull of water ! They al l leapt out of their sleepingbags and hur ri ed out side. I t was rai ni ng heavi ly and t hey f ound t hat a str eam had f or med i n the f iel d. The str eam wound i ts way across the f iel d and then fl owed r ight under their t ent ! Lesson28 No parki ng 禁止停車 Jasper White is one of those rar e people who bel ieves in ancient myths. He has just bought a new house i n the cit y, but ever si nce he m oved i n, he has had tr oubl e wi th m ot ori st s. when he r eturns home at night , he al ways f inds t hat someone has parked a car out si de his gate. Because of this, he has not been abl e to get his own car int o his garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 signs outside hi s gat e, but these have not had any ef fect. Now he has put an ugly stone head over t he gat e. I t is one of the ugli est f aces I have ever seen. I asked him what i t was and he told me that it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l t ur n m ot ori st s to st one. But none of t hem has been t ur ned to st one yet ! Lesson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Capt ain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。 is a smal l Swi ss aer opl ane cal led a 39。. Thi s wonder ful plane can car ry seven passengers. The most surpr ising t hing about i t, however , is t hat i t can l and anywhere: on snow, wat er , or even on a pl oughed f ield. Captain Fawcet 39。t any i n sight: t hey had al r un away! The m an laughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dren and thr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Leson31 Success st ory 成功者的故事 Yest er day aft er noon Frank Hawkins was t el li ng me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now the head of a ver y lar ge business pany, but as a boy he used t o wor k i n a smal shop. It was hi s job t o r epair bi cycles and at that tim e he used t o wor k four teen hour s a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a smal l work shop of his own. Dur ing t he war Frank used t o make spar e part s for aeroplanes. At t hat ti me he had t wo helpers. By t he end of t he war, the smal l wor kshop had bee a large f act ory whi ch employed seven hundr ed and t went y eight people. Frank smi led when he r em em ber ed his hard ear ly years and t he long road t o succes. He was sti l smi ling when the door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She wanted hi m t o r epai r t heir son39。 gave39。 car was badly dam aged and easy t o r ecognize. Short ly af ter wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and bot h men wer e ar est ed. Leson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Har t is going t o swim across the Engli sh Channel tomor row. She is goi ng to set out f rom the Fr ench coast at fi ve o39。s f at her wi l l set out wi th her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has t rained hi s daughter for years. Tom orr ow he wi l be wat chi ng her anxiousl y as she swi ms t he long distance to Engl and. Er na intends to take shor t r est s ever y t wo hour s. She wi l l have som ething t o dri nk but she wi l not eat any sol id food. Most of Er na39。s mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a gir l. Lesson37 The Olympi c Games 奧 林 匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì) The Ol ympic Gam es wi l l be held in our count ry in f our years39。They wi l al so be bui lding new roads and a special rail wayl ine. The Gam es wil l be hel d just out si de the capit al and the whol e area wi l be cal ed 39。. Wor kers wi l have pleted t he new roads by the end of thi s year . By the end of next year, they wi l have fi nis